Our mission is to promote student success through evidence-based science education. The University of Oregon Science Literacy Program (SLP) makes a real-world difference in the lives of UO students by building science literacy among undergraduate students, giving science students mentored teaching opportunities […]

Winter term we will read Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. Lang, J. M. (2016). Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. You can purchase a copy of the book or an electronic copy is available free […]

The Science Literacy Program has grown tremendously since it was founded in 2010. Last year, nearly 20% of undergraduate students participated in an SLP-affiliated course. The SLP works with faculty instructors, graduate fellows, and undergraduate scholars to improve pedagogy and science communication […]

Would you like to help with CWOSE ( Central Western Oregon Science Expo) at UO on Saturday, March 7th 2015? This is the regional Intel fair that features projects from students all over western Oregon. Prepare to be astounded by the creativity of both middle school and high school students! Many participants will earn awards of various kinds and some will receive substantial scholarships to UO or OSU. The UO hosted CWOSE for the first time last year and the location, including the good judging, was such a hit that the UO was asked to host the fair again.

If you’d like to judge, please contact Karen Sprague and sign up through the fair website. Go to http://www.nwse.org/cwose and access “Registration” by clicking on the frog icon in the upper right corner.

If you don’t want to judge, but would like to participate in some other way, let me know that, too. The fair needs help with set-up the day before (Friday, March 6 afternoon and evening), with guiding visitors the day of the fair (Saturday, March 7) and with cleanup when the fair concludes (Saturday, March 7 afternoon and evening).

Dear Colleagues: The UO Disability Studies Initiative and CoDaC welcome you to join us for an envisioning meeting for the future of disability and deaf studies at UO. Bring your knowledge, ideas, and big dreams.
Items already on the agenda include general brainstorming about the future we want, a disability studies minor and/or undergraduate and graduate certificates, a faculty development seminar, the campus disability community and climate, intersections with race, class, gender and sexuality, and liaisons with off-campus organizations.

If you want to add items to the agenda, please emailElizabeth Wheeler.
Coffee, cookies, and fruit will be served. The meeting will be ASL interpreted.
Service dogs are welcome. Dietary and other accommodation requests are also on the RSVP link.

The Berggren Demonstration Farm is situated on 90 acres of the MacKenzie River. The purpose of the farm is to demonstrate sustainable farming practices that preserve water quality in riparian zones.

The farm is looking for STEM education savvy students to develop activities and curriculum for K-12 students visiting the farm as part of field trips, classroom projects and other partnerships. Paid positions are available.

The 2015 UO Science and Invention Fair will be held on May 9th. To prepare for the fair SoD and SPICE is looking for 26 instructors that will visit local elementary and middle schools to present workshops on science fair project development. While presenting these workshops instructors will also mentor students on developing their own science projects.

Science Fair workshops will require approximately 2-3 hours per week, and involve 4-5 weeks worth of work. They also need helpers for the day of the Science Fair. These will require anywhere from 2-6 hours shifts on May 9th.

There will be an informational meeting Thursday March 5th from 4:00-5:00 in 240D Willamette Hall. If you would like to participate but can not make this meeting, please email Brandy (btodd@uoregon.edu or Cori (cori@uoregon.edu).